These last weeks we have been concentrating on finalising a presentation in our literary circle groups. My group, Afonso, Amilcar, Faustina and I. As we have been focusing on the “essay question” we choose at the beginning: “Symbols can help a writer convey ideas that develop characters, establish atmosphere, etc. To what effects were symbols …
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Debates
In the last two classes we had 2 debates. In the first class I was part of the debate as it was my team and I against another team. My teams stance in the debate was how abortion should be consider morally wrong, while the other team had the opposite stand being abortion is should …
Political cartoons
A political cartoon, a type of editorial cartoon, is a graphic with caricatures of public figures, expressing the artist’s opinion.A political cartoon is used in order to allow the public to see what the other side of politics are like. In class, we investigated the following 4 different political cartoons in the image above: The …
Literary Circle
As I previously said my group and I have been reading the book the Handmaid’s tale my group and I agree on how many chapters or pages to read and once we’ve read it we are all tasked with different jobs which are; summarising,clarifying,predicting and my favorite questioning. I started off with summarising, my task …
Paper 1 Practice #1
I have completed the paper 1 assessment which was the analysing of non-literary techniques. We knew that the options that we would have on the practice were going to be one of the political cartoons we’d done in class. In preparation for the test I went over the all the political cartoons we had previously …
The Handmaid’s Tale First reading.
For homework in class we have been reading the book the handmaid’s tale. Up until now my group and I have read 200 pages and every 100 pages we read every person in the literary circle has a certain task to complete like: Summarising,clarifying,predicting and my favorite questioning. Ive really been enjoying the book as …
Paper one (re-doing my intro)
The political cartoon “Assault of Lady Justice” was made by Bruce mackinnon on the 26th of september 2018 which was published in different newspapers including The Chronicle Herald Which is best known for reporting news that detail controversial stories surrounding celebrities or people of power. Bruce mackinnon created this in regard to the Brett Kavanaugh’s …
Assault of Lady Justice
The following image is one of the political cartoons we analyze in class(the first one actually). This cartoon is called assault on lady justice since as you can see the women being assaulted is lady justice.The following political cartoon was made in order to spread awareness about the abuse of power by members of the …
Intertextuality
Intertextuality is the the relationship between texts, especially referring to literary ones. examples of intertextuality can include: allusion, quotation, calque, plagiarism, translation, pastiche and parody. Intertextuality is a literary device that helps lead to a much better reading experience as it brings another context, idea, story into the text at hand this is important in …
First Impression
When I was going into this course I was expecting a harder version of english in year 11. After the first two classes I learned that this class will be more complicated and advanced in its own ways but it won’t necessarily be harder. After just learning about the three areas of exploration I feel …
Y12 English LL SL 2019-2021 